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Lund Co.'s new global tie will put Omaha "on another map"

http://www.omaha.com/article/20121206/M ... nother-map
To stay competitive and growing, Lund said the company he founded will announce another change today. The homegrown, full-service commercial real estate firm on Jan. 1 will join forces with Cushman & Wakefield, which bills itself as the world's largest privately held commercial real estate services firm with 243 offices and 14,000 employees in 60 countries.
A broader communitywide impact is expected as Cushman & Wakefield representatives throw Omaha's name into the mix of potential places for businesses to open companies. Fisher said that is happening already, and he knows Omaha is on a “short list” of possibilities for a company that hadn't considered Omaha until Cushman suggested it.

Chicago-based Shawn P. Mobley, president of Cushman & Wakefield's central region, is in Omaha for today's announcement and said the partnership “puts Omaha on another map.”

“When clients are talking to us about places where we do business or successes we have, Omaha is more and more becoming part of that discussion,” he said.

Mobley, who was raised in Omaha and graduated from Central High School, said his company picked Omaha, and then Lund, after an analysis of U.S. markets where it wanted a presence. Cushman was attracted by the city's Fortune 500 companies and “strong vibrant business community.”

Meanwhile, Fisher said, “Our third-party business over the last nine years has grown exponentially to the point where, to perform our services at a high enough level, we needed a global brand.”
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